15 Things Everybody Should Quit Doing In Order To Be Highly Productive And Effective

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Source:https://medium.com/ Photo Source: www.quotecatalog.com By:Parker Nash Every year elite professional runners and Olympians like Galen Rupp, Emily Infeld, and Shannon Rowbury take six to eight weeks to train at altitude. They hole up in remote, high elevation locations like Flagstaff, Arizona and Utah to train as a team where they push themselves physically and mentally to the brink of exhaustion. […]

You Know What You Need To Do. You’re Just Scared.

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Source:https://theascent.pub/ By:Deb Knobelman, PhD Photo by Joshua Earle on Unsplash Or, lessons learned from slogging through a PhD. I have a lifelong love affair with math and science. Given my family, my parents took for granted that I would excel in those areas. And excel I did. At the end of college, I had no practical ideas about what […]

Are You Putting Too Much Pressure on Yourself to Keep Moving Forward?

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Source:https://medium.com/ By:Aimee Pearcy Photo by Samuel Zeller on Unsplash A while ago, I wrote about why it’s so important to keep moving. And I still stand by that. But after spending the past few months following my own advice and zigzagging all over the place, I felt like the article needed a follow up. So I thought I’d try again — this […]

How To Make Progress When You Are Terrified.

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Source: https://theascent.pub/ By:Deb Knobelman, PhD Photo by Olivier Lemieux on Unsplash 4 strategies to move you toward your goals when you are frozen. You might not believe it right now, but we’re all terrified. All of us who set goals for ourselves. Who want to try something new. Something that feels big. Change careers. Run a marathon. Write a […]

Managing Yourself: How to Calibrate Your Own Strengths and Weaknesses,

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Source:https://betterhumans.coach.me/ By:Julie Zhuo Photo by athree23 via Pixabay. After I had my first baby, I took three months off from work before returning. I knew the transition back would be hard, but I was not prepared for a “Winter is Coming” kind of difficult. A few weeks in, I found myself overwhelmed by every little thing. My mind felt […]

This Is Why You Do Need A (Realistic) Morning Routine.

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Source:https://theascent.pub/ By: Deb Knobelman, PhD Photo by Bailey Zindel on Unsplash Especially if you are a night owl or have ADHD. My son wanted to make his own smoothie yesterday. He drinks a lot of smoothies. And at 10 years old, he is perfectly capable of making his own. I make him almost the exact same combination every day. […]

How to Balance Having a Family and a Career.

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Are you a career-oriented woman who also happens to be a parent? If you are, you may be dealing with a number of different issues. Many women, just like yourself, find it somewhat difficult to balance having a career and a family. While it is more than possible to do both, it can be overwhelming […]

16 Things Everybody Should Stop Doing In Order To Be Successful.

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Source:https://medium.com/ By:Parker Nash Photo: “person on body of water reading book” by Toa Heftiba on Unsplash Often in life, to be successful it doesn’t require doing more. It requires you to stop. To eliminate the waste in your life. In a culture hardwired to “do it all”, it can be counterintuitive to do less. It goes against everything […]

When Should You Quit?

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Source: https://medium.com/ By:Melissa Chu photo credit: Tobias Zils Quitting has a negative association. We describe it as giving up, being non-committal, or lacking perseverance. When someone quits, it’s easy to assume that the person simply didn’t give it their all. To be sure, quitting prematurely happens too often. Whenever you try something, you’re going to have difficulties. […]